Range: Western Atlantic Ocean: Florida Keys to Central America, and also the Caribbean

Size: Up to 2 inches (5 cm)

Natural Environment: Inhabit coral heads in fairly deep water

General Husbandry: Has a temperature range of 72 - 79°F (22 - 27°C) and their natural diet consists mainly of plankton. Requires a meaty diet, i.e., enriched brine shrimp, mysis, finely chopped fish or shrimp flesh, and other various frozen carnivore foods, with one or two feedings per day. They should be housed in aquariums with a sandbed of at least two inches in depth and not housed with aggressive fishes such as groupers, dottybacks, triggerfishes or angelfishes. Not often seen in the trade.

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